motor-truck

• “Of course I heard of the robbery of the motor-truck, but I never for a moment connected that with this sending station we've been looking for.”

  The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery

• “In twenty years 'time our life of to-day will seem centuries old, just as to-day it is hard to realize that the automobile and motor-truck do not date back much over a generation.”

  Opportunities in Aviation

• “The railroads must solve the problem to compete with motor-truck traffic and fast boats on the lakes and rivers of our land.”

  Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails

• “I should have been glad if I could have had more of a part in it, because, given your perfected railroad -- and I speak as a friend of the railroad and a friend of the waterway, which I think is also coming into its own -- I am convinced that neither will reach its normal place as a servant of the people unless linked up with motor-truck routes.”

  Address by Honorable William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce at Conference of Regional Chairmen of the Highway Transport Committee Council of National Defense

• “People dressed just the same as they did in Pineville and there was a five-and-ten-cent store painted red, and a firehouse with a motor-truck hook-and-ladder just like the one at home.”

  Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's

• “Experience of existing motor-truck lines in the locality.”

  The Rural Motor Express

• “The United States Department of Labor through its employment service urges the adoption of motor-truck transportation facilities in order to conserve the time of men in farming neighborhoods during the period of planting, cultivation, and harvest, so as to relieve the farm labor shortage.”

  The Rural Motor Express

• “The Post Office Department has demonstrated the value of motor-truck transportation through experimental lines of parcel-post trucks now in operation in several of the Eastern States.”

  The Rural Motor Express

• “The United States Department of Agriculture through its bureau of markets has inaugurated an investigation of the efficiency of motor-truck transportation in the marketing of farm produce.”

  The Rural Motor Express

• “Many of these routes are operated by farmers who first learned the advantages of motor-truck transportation by using trucks for their individual needs.”

  The Rural Motor Express

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